John Kerry May Have Accidentally Found A Diplomatic Solution In Syria

[FarCenter]

White House and State Department officials said they are open to Russia's proposal to place Syrian chemical weapons under international control and then destroy them, even though they are skeptical about the Syrians' sincerity.

"We'd have to take a hard look. Any transfer of chemical weapons to international control would be a positive development," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told MSNBC on Monday. He quickly added, though, that the White House was "skeptical" of the seriousness of the offer.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-syria-chemical-weapons-proposal-john-kerry-2013-9

[quinnox]

1. LOL, nice headline. And I see some war monger types seem upset that their military intervention

might be going down the drain >

[cali]

5. not a war monger. don't see this going anywhere.

[truedelphi]

21. I know. We have all been there so many times before.

The powers that be will do whatever it will take to get this war on. And it really is not about Syria.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. Yeah, those of us supportive of President Obama are just despondent now

that he might not have to launch strikes against Syria. I wasn't really for them but I wasn't dead set against them either and I would be just as glad if a diplomatic solution is found- of course, if a diplomatic solution is reached, I would be surprised if the threat of airstrikes wasn't at least a contributing factor to coming to the table.

[shenmue]

2. I hope it works

It would be great if we can put a stop to the chem. assaults without having to go in there. Whew.

[pnwmom]

3. Or maybe he sent up a trial balloon, Putin caught it, and then Putin carried it to Assad. n/t

[FarCenter]

10. I believe State's first announcement that Kerry was making a rhetorical point

I don't think that Kerry had thought through the possibilities. He led off base too far and got picked off.

[wandy]

12. It appears that Kerry hasn't been thinking a number of things through of late..........

If the Russians are willing to disarm this situation, I'd be the last one to fault John Kerry for getting lucky.

[uponit7771]

4. Seems doable as long as it's international and not lead by Russia. Also seems like a way out for

...Assad and even the US.

[HappyMe]

9. I agree.

The thing that concerns me is the Russia/Putin connection. I wouldn't trust Putin with CW either.

[sharp_stick]

6. Accidentally?

Is that what it's going to be called? Thanks for the heads up, I'm sure nobody would want to be caught off guard.

[grahamhgreen]

16. Perhaps, 'moronically' would be a better term

[sharp_stick]

17. Whatever helps you sleep at night

don't forget to get together so every stays on the same page.

[blm]

7. LOL. Sounds like people who didn't get it earlier need to pretend

that these matters had 'accidental' solutions.

FYI - Russia and US have quietly been on the same page regarding Syria since before the chemical attack. Russia is using this entire scenario to do their part in getting Assad to the place they needed him to be. Russia's Putin and Lavrov don't want military intervention any more than Obama and Kerry.


http://www.rferl.org/content/syria-lavrov-kerry-geneva/25071543.html

[cali]

8. bwahahahahaha

[Pretzel_Warrior]

11. Yes. He just stumbles into diplomatic victories

Notice the resemblance? And they're both French. (Hint: Neither of them is).

[FarCenter]

15. One of them played Dr. Strangelove

[gopiscrap]

13. God I hope so

[avaistheone1]

14. Note to self: Encourage John Kerry to have more accidents

[frazzled]

18. "Accident": the measured opinion of a recent journalism undergradudate

Brett LoGiurato is a political reporter for Business Insider. He graduated from Syracuse University in 2011 with degrees in newspaper and online journalism and political science.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/author/brett-logiurato#ixzz2eQUaignN

Are we now getting our foreign policy analysis from 23-year-old journalism grads? I'll add this to the stockpile of commentary, but I'm going to be reading some other descriptions from more seasoned foreign policy analysts.

This could have been a blog post. (PS: I'm always wary of Business Insider. Remember, its editor was charged with securities fraud and he was fined and permanently barred from the securities industry. Once a hawker of false goods, he should be questioned in all future transactions.)

[truedelphi]

20. remember how the very important disclosure of "All the facts"

relating to George Dubya's Weapons of Mass destruction and the need to have a quick and victorious assault on Saddam came from a master's thesis of some college nobody who had his work plagiarized by the Bush regime?

And last week's "intel analysis" that was four pages long also had the same quality as what a high school senior might have written as intel analysis for a screenplay.

Both administrations rely far more heavily on the CIA factor of total control over media, and now that CNN is so "bravely"
offering us up those green screen technology vids of the mass murder by sarin gas, it is almost mote as to how an "analysis" is written.

Few people is this country can use logic any more. And most people perfer TV and viideos to print.

[frazzled]

23. I don't think we're talking about the same thing

But that's okay. Speak amongst yourself.

[jakeXT]

22. Here a catblogger:Kerry Gaffes, But Maybe It's the Good Kind of Gaffe

Kerry Gaffes, But Maybe It's the Good Kind of Gaffe

"I had honestly forgotten what a gaffe factory Kerry was," writes a friend, "but it seems like he's continuing on in his bold tradition of marching foot in mouth first." The daming gaffe, it turns out, was an off-the-cuff response to a reporter who asked if there was anything Bashar al-Assad could do to avoid an American military strike. "Sure," Kerry said dismissively, he could turn over his entire arsenal of chemical weapons this week. That would do it. "But he isn't about to do it," Kerry said, "and it can't be done, obviously."

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/kerry-gaffe-syria-chemical-weapons-russia

[Schema Thing]

19. Kerry publicly demanded Syria give up it's CW stockpiles several days ago.

So to act as if this was "accidental" is ignorant.


And I'm sure he has done behind the scenes if not publicly since he began serving, although no one (here) was paying any attention to Syria months ago.

[JoePhilly]

25. The effort to figure out how to not give the administration any credit for this

is already underway.

[blm]

27. Pretty much. The most deplorable reporting on a serious issue

that they cover not much differently than a WWW match.

[JoePhilly]

30. Very true.

Endless misleading reports, and speculative outrage.

[progressoid]

24. Derp de derp.

It's like this is his job or something.

[Paper Roses]

26. It is as simple as this: I don't believe him any more. n/t

[matt819]

29. Or maybe not accidental.

This could all have been diplomatic theater, but thanks to Bush & Co. we are all Pavlovian trained to assume war, occupation, etc.